ORPHEUS, EURYDICE
Interdisciplinary dance performace
Perfomances: 2025.02.19-20 Vilnius; 02.26 Klaipėda
The album
Orpheus, Eurydice invites listeners into a haunting, otherworldly space where time dissolves, and the boundaries between past, present, and future blur. the performance does not fit into the usual framework of modern ballet, the ancient story connects various media and opens the door to the complex world of physical sciences.
the creators of the performance combined the ideas of modern scientists about time and why we feel differently when we count it in the same way, why we divide it into past, present and future, with one of the most popular stories of ancient Greece – the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
the myth tells of Orpheus' journey deep into Hades, the realm of death. with his songs, Orpheus convinces the lords of the underworld to return his dead wife Eurydice. before leaving the underworld, Orpheus must fulfill a condition – after taking his wife out of the kingdom of Hades, he cannot look back. the last-minute glance back and Eurydice's return to the underworld – her second death – is to this day one of the saddest moments of parting in all of Western culture.
in the interpretation of the myth of the creators of Vilnius, Orpheus personifies time, which we feel and can measure, and Eurydice – what the Italian physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli describes as a world beyond time – "a strange and alien world, but nevertheless, our world. it's like reaching the top of a mountain, where there is only rock, snowfields and sky. an essential world that emits a dry, fruitless and uncomfortable light."
Team
choreographer — Martynas Rimeikis
composers — Albertas Navickas ir Jūra Elena Šedytė
libretto author — Rimantas Ribačiauskas
set and lighting designer — Arvydas Buinauskas (ABlight)
contemporary music duo — Twenty Fingers Duo (Arnas Kmieliauskas, Lora Kmieliauskaitė)
dancers — Jeronimas Krivickas and Julija Stankevičiūtė
costume designer — Juozas Valenta
sound director — Julius Aglinskas
produced by — Vidas Bizunevičius and MB "Tarp tylos"
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